Combined pocket-knife and manicuring-tool.



'No. 870,604. PATENTED NOV. 12,1907. H. M. WILLIS. COMBINED POCKET KNIFE AND MANIGURING TOOL.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 30. 1906.

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COMBINED P OC KET-KNIFE AND MANICURING-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1907.

Applientim filed November 30. 1906. Serial No- 345,825.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. WILLIS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hempstead, in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful lmproveinents in a Combined Pocket-Knife and Manicuring-Tool, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in providing the blade spring of a pocket knife with means for filing or rasping the edge of the finger or toe nail, and to provide in connec- Figure 1 illustrates an elevational view of a pocketknife, the improvement thereto applied, Fig. 2 shows such a knife in position during one of the manicuring operations; Fig. 3 illustrates another position of the knife, displaying how the device may be employed to reach the more inaccessibly located portions of the nail down in the corners and near the quick; Fig. 4 illustrates such a knife with the ba'ck portion thereof presented to view and illustrating the filing or rasping surface created on one sideof the knifes blade-spring, and further illustrating different characters of filing surfaces either coarse or this or straight or oblique for both I -cutting and filing the nail. .Fig. 5 illustrates a transverse sectional view through lines 55 of Fig. 1, and which shows the depression of the blade-spring and the rising edges of the casing which are adapted for use as guide and gage respectively; Fig. 6 illustrates the same kind of a knife provided with means both for paring the nail and for removing therefromunder objection able substances.

1n the several illustrations, similar characters of reference will apply to the similar parts.

' Describing the invention in the form illustrated, the blade-spring8, of a pocket-knife, so-called, is provided with a rasping or filing surface 9, which may, in the present instance, be divided into portions 10 and 1], for both cutting the nail, and for smoothing the same after it has beencut.

As will be understood, the spring 8, controls the movements, in the present instance, of blades l2, and one of the important features of the invention is comprised in sinking or depressing the spring 8, sufiiciently within or beneath the back-edges 13 and 14 of the knife-case-sides 15 and 16, so that the edges will project beyond or from the surface of the springs filing the sides of the handle, and which is provided with a surface 9 to permit the use of said edges 13 and 14 being employed as a guide and gage respectively t-J; control the position of the nail relatively to the filing surface, whereby to keep the nail on the file, and also prevent the cutting of the nail too short, by depositing the ballend of the finger on either edge 13 or 14 during the process of either drawing the knife across the finger or the finger across the knife as best suits the individual. I

The rasping or filing surface, carried by the spring 8, as has been intimated, may be divided into portions 10 and ll respectively, so that the corrugations upon one portion, for instance that designated 23, may be cut transversely at right or substantially at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the spring 8, while those on portion 24 may be cut obliq'uely across the spring, the latter operating to cut the nail, at will, while the former operates to smooth the same after cutting. This feature, of course, while assisting in the completeness 0f75 things, does not necessarily operate in the interpretation of the invention whether employed or not.

Referring now, more particularly to Fig. 6, we have additions of means for paring the nail, and means for removing from under the nail the usual obj eetiona-l substances The end 17, of the one wall of the knife case may be provided with an opening 18, a portion of the wall 20 of which may be constructed to form a cutting surface at the intersectionv of that wall and the wall of the casing-side, whereby the nail may be trimmed while the trimming passes through the opening 18. The means for removing objectionable substances from under the nail may comprehend 2. prong 21, which may be for med integrally with the body of the casing-side at the extremity of the same, prefer- 9o ably in such a manner that the free end of that prong I may be disposed within the line of that end, whereby to lessen the likelihood of that prong rendering dainageto the pocket while the knife is being carried. In order I to provide for this, a portion 22'may be removed from the knifes end and into the recess formed by this removal, and the prong located as more clearly seen in the figure referred to. It is understood, however, that the particular arrangement here set forth does not necessitate adoption. I

It will now be seen that I have converted a knife a so-called pocket-knife,into a nail-file or inani curing instrument, so as to form a combined pocketknife and manicuring tool.

Having thus described this invention, I claim, an will regard as an infringement of my rights any device which the following protection can cover:

1. In a so-called pocket-knife, the combination with a handle and blades, of a blade-spring, located between finger-nail-filing surface, said surface being depressed below the sides of the knife-handle.

2.'In a so-called pocket-knife, the combination with a,

handle andblades, of a blade spring located between the sides of the knife-handle, and which is provided with'a flnger-nail-filing surface, said surface being located beneath the edges of the sides of the knife-handle, so that said edges will form guides and gages respectively for the ball of the finger.

3. A so-called pocket-knife, having the upper or outer side of the'blade-spring provided with suitable rasping facilities for trimming the nails of fingers and toes, and having said spring so embedded between the side por' tl'ons of the knife case that the portions of said case that project outward from the filing or rasping surface will form guides and gages respectively for controlling the position of the nail relatively to the filing surface. whereby to keep the nail onto the file and also prevent too great an abrasion of said nail, and means for paring the nail.

4. A so-called pocket-knife, comprising blades, a cas ing for the blades and a spring, said spring being set beneath the edges of said casing and provided with a rasping surface, and said edges'forming a guide and gage respectively to control the body to be rasped relatively to the rasping surface.

Signed at New York, the county and State York this 20" day of November, 1906. I

HENRY M. \VILLIS.

of New Witnesses O. B. DUBoIs, FRED. \V. BARNACLO. 

